A 3-2-1 backup plan, worked end to end
Three copies, two kinds of media, one copy off-site — planned for a real home-office PC with 340 GB of files, down to the drive sizes and the monthly swap day.
Backup & recovery, worked through
A backup you have never restored from is a hope, not a backup.
BackupWorkbench takes one backup job at a time and works it all the way through — the plan, the drive sizes with the arithmetic shown, the schedule, and the test restore at the end that proves the whole thing works. Home PCs and small offices, no server room required.
The first two jobs on the bench
Back up a Windows 11 PC to an external drive — and restore a file to prove it
File History set up on an external drive, then a deliberate test: delete nothing, restore one file to a safe place, and open it.
What belongs on this bench
Guides here cover the tools already in reach: the backup features built into Windows, external drives and NAS boxes, sync and cloud backup services, snapshots, and the recovery side of all of them — because the restore is the part that matters. Every plan shows its numbers, and every setup ends with files actually coming back.
See the full guide list.